| 2 | 2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | USA | Boston | 58,240 USD | 58,240 USD |
| 1 | 1 | Harvard University | USA | Boston | 66,900 USD | 66,900 USD |
| 4 | 1 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom | Cambridge | 25,193 USD | 25,193 USD |
| 3 | 3 | Stanford University | USA | Santa Clara | 47,331 USD | 44,184 USD |
| 6 | 2 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom | Oxford | 20,676 USD | 20,676 USD |
| 11 | 1 | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich | Switzerland | Zurich | 1,109 USD | 1,109 USD |
| 13 | 9 | University of California, Berkeley | USA | Berkeley | 42,802 USD | 32,756 USD |
| 5 | 4 | California Institute of Technology | USA | Pasadena | 48,111 USD | 48,111 USD |
| 42 | 1 | National University of Singapore | Singapore | Singapore | 26,904 USD | 26,904 USD |
| 24 | 1 | University of Tokyo | Japan | Tokyo | 4,712 USD | 4,712 USD |
| 15 | 4 | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine | United Kingdom | London | 33,465 USD | 34,777 USD |
| 7 | 5 | Princeton University | USA | Princeton | 41,820 USD | 43,720 USD |
| 44 | 2 | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne | Switzerland | Lausanne | 1,210 USD | 1,210 USD |
| 10 | 7 | Yale University | USA | New Haven | 45,800 USD | 44,800 USD |
| 71 | 2 | Nanyang Technological University | Singapore | Singapore | 11,355 USD | 11,355 USD |
| 87 | 1 | University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 18,633 USD | 18,633 USD |
| 55 | 2 | Peking University | China | Beijing | 4,659 USD | 5,241 USD |
| 25 | 2 | Kyoto University | Japan | Kyoto | 4,712 USD | 4,712 USD |
| 40 | 1 | Technical University Munich | Germany | Munich | 135 USD | 135 USD |
| 37 | 2 | Australian National University | Australia | Canberra | 23,401 USD | 25,771 USD |
| 8 | 6 | University of Chicago | USA | Chicago | 48,253 USD | 45,000 USD |
| 18 | 13 | University of California, Los Angeles | USA | Los Angeles | 62,205 USD | 62,205 USD |
| 12 | 8 | Cornell University | USA | Ithaca | 52,612 USD | 34,444 USD |
| 52 | 1 | Seoul National University | South Korea | Seoul | 6,775 USD | 4,303 USD |
| 49 | 1 | Tsinghua University | China | Beijing | 4,368 USD | 5,678 USD |
| 32 | 1 | University of Melbourne | Australia | Melbourne | 27,995 USD | 27,995 USD |
| 14 | 10 | Columbia University | USA | New York City | 46,846 USD | 39,000 USD |
| 115 | 2 | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology | South Korea | Daejeon | 7,000 USD | 27,000 USD |
| 112 | 3 | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 17,868 USD | 5,373 USD |
| 102 | 6 | Tokyo Institute of Technology | Japan | Tokyo | 4,712 USD | 4,712 USD |
| 21 | 1 | University of Toronto | Canada | Toronto | 33,980 USD | 33,980 USD |
| 109 | 1 | National Taiwan University | Taiwan | Taipei | 1,892 USD | 1,868 USD |
| 50 | 3 | University of Munich | Germany | Munich | 261 USD | 1,000 USD |
| 144 | 6 | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) | Germany | Karlsruhe | 3,460 USD | 3,460 USD |
| 73 | 33 | University of California, Santa Barbara | USA | Santa Barbara | 13,000 USD | 13,000 USD |
| 19 | 14 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | USA | Ann Arbor | 41,811 USD | 39,000 USD |
| 43 | 22 | University of Texas at Austin | USA | Austin | 33,000 USD | 21,000 USD |
| 22 | 16 | Northwestern University | USA | Evanston | 47,251 USD | 43,000 USD |
| 58 | 3 | Osaka University | Japan | Suita | 4,712 USD | 4,712 USD |
| 30 | 19 | University of Washington | USA | Washington D.C. | 51,321 USD | 51,321 USD |
| 59 | 4 | University of Sydney | Australia | Sydney | 29,632 USD | 30,337 USD |
| 82 | 4 | Tohoku University | Japan | Sendai | 4,712 USD | 4,712 USD |
| 100 | 4 | Fudan University | China | Shanghai | 3,348 USD | 3,348 USD |
| 27 | 6 | University of Manchester | United Kingdom | Manchester | 26,247 USD | 23,622 USD |
| 47 | 3 | University of Queensland | Australia | Brisbane | 21,572 USD | 23,162 USD |
| 170 | 10 | RWTH Aachen University | Germany | Aachen | 577 USD | 577 USD |
| 34 | 2 | McGill University | Canada | Montreal | 27,390 USD | 7,563 USD |
| 33 | 21 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | USA | Urbana | 30,228 USD | 15,000 USD |
| 9 | 3 | University College London | United Kingdom | London | 25,237 USD | 24,948 USD |
| 26 | 5 | University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom | Edinburgh | 20,801 USD | 16,076 USD |